Recently picked up a new camera to use on our upcoming trip to Japan. Ended up choosing a Sony HX5V because of its purported low light prowess, super fast burst mode, broad zoom range (wider and longer than our current W300s), 1080i HD video, and nifty-neat-o features.

Been taking it out for a spin these past few days, trying to dial in how best to utilize this camera (still struggling a bit to get results that I am happy enough to be able to go without our W300s… not quite there yet), but thought I’d post a few examples of the camera’s panorama functionality (one of those “nifty-neat-o features” I mentioned earlier) .

Neat-o.

I’m still a bit iffy on this camera (despite the “nifty-neat-o features”). Mainly because of the big reduction in customizable settings; such as degrees of noise reduction, sharpness, contrast, and saturation (I’m kinda hoping they add those back in via a firmware update… but I’m not holding my breath).